Chapter 16

Here we have Sarai getting impatient with God's timing and because she has not had a child yet, she sends her maidservent into Abram and she conceived.

The words we see here are not the Lord's directly but those of an angel sent by the Lord.

16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou? and
whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my
mistress Sarai.

16:9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy
mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

16:10 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy
seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with
child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;
because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,
and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the
presence of all his brethren.


Is any of this ringing true throughout history?